Another week had passed and it was time to start a few more seeds. I seeded all the Salvia, Snapdragons, Coleus, Impatiens, Herbs, Lettuce, Spinach, and Sweet Peppers. Oh, and Lemongrass which has already sprouted and the pepper tray is on the heat mat.
I have a large potting table in my garage where I can fill all the seed trays.
Once I have them filled I bring them onto the kitchen island to make seeding easier on my back.
These are all the different sweet peppers that I grow each year. I save my own seed which saves me a lot of money every season.
I put 2 seeds into each cell and will thin them once I see which pepper is the strongest.
I'm loving my new seed-storing system. It really has made life so much easier for me. Before I just had them all thrown into large zip-lock bags. Now, they are neatly organized by type and I have a list of when I need to start each seed according to my last frost date.
Once the trays are seeded I put them onto this rack under LED lights. You can see that I am already out of room. The month of March is when I generally put the trays into the greenhouse. That always depends on how cold the nights get since I have to run heaters to keep it above freezing.
These Solar-powered lights were a gift from my husband for Valentine's Day. The man knows me so well. Last fall I had to throw most of mine away because they stopped lighting. Now I have 10 new ones to put along the front of the house. That will make the garden look so nice at night.
I took a trip to the garden store to stock up on fertilizers for the raised beds. As soon as the snow melts I will add the Blood Meal before I plant so the nutrient gets a chance to break down.
I found this water-soluble fertilizer for the house plants and decided to give it a try. I will also use a light solution for the seedlings once they get established.
The last of the new seeds came from MIgardener and now I have everything I planned on growing this year. Next week I may start some tomato seeds. I like to have good-sized plants to put in the garden which gives me earlier harvest times. That's it for my gardening update, well, seeding update for the week. Happy gardening everyone!
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